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Smart pebbles

To test their algorithm, the researchers designed and built a system of 'smart pebbles'cubes about 10 millimeters to an edge, with processors and magnets built in.

Credit: M. Scott Brauer

Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool.

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